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I went to a wedding reception and they were all irish, the band that is usual at these do's turned out to be a guy playing uilleann pipes, at first it was ok but as the night drew on OMG I felt like ripping the things from him and throwing them out. It really grated on you after a while and you have to be in to that type of music, that all said Ilike traditional bag pipes.Some British traditional music now!
Billy Pigg played the Northumbrian smallpipes, an instrument similar to the Scottish bagpipes but smaller and higher pitched, and with the bellows strapped around the player's waist. I've got a couple of Billy Pigg LPs - after a while the sound of the instrument becomes irritating, but is, in small doses, very impressive. There are players nowadays keeping this music alive, the most well-known being Kathryn Tickell.